I toss off a mention in this essay, about its book publication. By the time it appeared I was thinking whether I could assemble these A-to-Z’s, or a set of them, into a book. I haven’t had the energy to put that together but it still seems viable. Mr Wu, author of the Singapore Maths … Continue reading “From my Seventh A-to-Z: Big-O and Little-O Notation”
Mr Wu, author of the Singapore Maths Tuition blog, asked me to explain a technical term today. I thought that would be a fun, quick essay. I don’t learn very fast, do I? A note on style. I make reference here to “Big-O” and “Little-O”, capitalizing and hyphenating them. This is to give them visual … Continue reading “My All 2020 Mathematics A to Z: Big-O and Little-O Notation”
Beth, author of the popular inspiration blog I Didn’t Have My Glasses On …. proposed this topic. Hilbert’s problems are a famous set of questions. I couldn’t hope to summarize them all in an essay of reasonable length. I’d have trouble to do them justice in a short book. But there are still things to … Continue reading “My All 2020 Mathematics A to Z: Hilbert’s Problems”
I’m getting to wonder whether cartoonists really do think about mathematics only when schools are in session; there was a frightening lull in mathematics-themed comic strips this month and I was getting all ready to write about something meaningful like how Gaussian integration works instead. But they came around, possibly because the kids went back … Continue reading “Reading the Comics, January 20, 2014”
As promised, I’ve got a fresh round of mathematics-themed comic strips to discuss, something that’s rather fun to do because it offers such an easy answer to the question of what to write about today. Once you have the subject and a deadline the rest of the writing isn’t so very hard. So here’s some … Continue reading “Reading the Comics, October 8, 2013”
I’m sure to let my interest in the Internet Archive version of Landau, Akhiezer, and Lifshiz General Physics wane soon enough. But for now I’m still digging around and finding stuff that delights me. For example, here, from the end of section 58 (Solids and Liquids): As the temperature decreases, the specific heat of a … Continue reading “Fun With General Physics”
Mir Books is this company that puts out downloadable, translated copies of mostly Soviet mathematics and physics books. As often happens I started reading them kind of on a whim and kept following in the faith that someday I’d see a math text I just absolutely had to have. It hasn’t quite reached that, although … Continue reading “General Physics from the Internet Archive”
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